BY EVERAERT LEYNIERS, BRUSSELS, EARLY 17TH CENTURY

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A FLEMISH ALLEGORICAL TAPESTRY
BY EVERAERT LEYNIERS, BRUSSELS, EARLY 17TH CENTURY
Woven in silks and wools, depicting May from a series of the Months, with a courtly-dressed hunting party on horseback, centred by the falconer, musicians on a boat and dancing peasant beyond, in the background a mountainous landscape with a castle, within a border decorated with ribbon-tied foliate garlands, centred to the top with a cartouche inscribed 'MEYVS', set to the angles with winged putti and centred to sides and bottom with parrots in scrollwork cartouches, the blue outer slip with weaver's signature 'E.LEYNIERS and with Brussels townmark, minor losses and repairs
10 ft. 3 in. x 15 ft. 2 in. (313 cm. x 462 cm.)

Provenance

Possibly part of a set of twelve with Comtesse d'Xaintrailles, sold, Paris, 28-30 November 1911.
Baron Descamps, sold Sotheby's, London, 30 April 1976, lot 16.

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Lot Essay

Everaert III Leyniers (d. 1680) was the dean of the weaver's guild in 1635. A tapestry of identical subject was sold anonymously, Christie's, New York, 9 June 2009, lot 152, and another Christie's, New York, 24 November 2009, lot 256. Two tapestries with unidentified months but almost certainly from the same series were purchased from C. Lihme by French & Co in 1925 and sold to George H. Frazier the same year.

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